As expected, Yota has unveiled its latest dual-screen smartphone. The Yotaphone 2 features a 5 inch, 1920 x 1080 pixel AMOLED display on one side. But flip the phone over and you’ll find a 4.7 inch, 960 x 540 pixel always-on ePaper display. You can use a wallpaper on that second screen to customize the […]
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Sony develops watch with E Paper screen… and wristband
Sony has developed a wristwatch with an an electronic paper display. The low-power screen can be viewed in direct sunlight with no artificial illumination. But you can also change the watch face since it’s drawn electronically. There are a handful of other watches with E Ink or E Paper displays on the market, but Sony’s watch […]
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YotaPhone 2 dual-screen smartphone coming in December
Russian phone company Yota plans to unveil its next dual-screen smartphone on December 3rd. Like last year’s Yotaphone, the new Yotaphone 2 appears to have a color screen on one side and an ePaper display on the other. But earlier this year we learned that the new model would be a little different. Detailed specs […]
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InkCase Plus launches this month: E Ink case for smartphones
Gajah’s InkCase Plus is a smartphone case with an E Ink screen. You can connect the case to your phone, use it as a flip cover, and wirelessly pair the E Ink screen with your phone so it can display content when your primary display is off. You can also pop out the screen and […]
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PlasticLogic unveils flexible AMOLED display for wearables
PlasticLogic makes ePaper screens for eBook readers and other devices. Now the company’s showing of a new flexible display that could be used for smartwatches or other wearable products. The new screen is a flexible AMOLED display that can be used for curved devices such as watches or bracelets. PlasticLogic’s new display can show 256 […]
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Zebble is a Pebble smartwatch clone for half the price (and none of the ecosystem)
Pebble beat big name companies including Samsung, LG, Motorola and Apple to the smartwatch market with the launch of a wristwatch with an ePaper display, long battery life, the ability to sync with Android and iOS and display notifications on your wrist, and support for many third party apps. The Pebble Smartwatch currently sells for […]
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PaperFold: A foldable, multi-screen ePaper smartphone prototype
Ever wish your phone had more than one display? How about three? A team from Queen’s University’s Human Media Lab are showing off a working prototype of a multi-screen, foldable smartphone that lets you add or remove screens as needed. It’s called PaperFold, and it just a multi-display concept. It’s also a shape-changer. The idea is that you […]
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Sony 13 inch Digital Paper E Ink slate coming to America… for $1100
Sony introduced a 13 inch slate for reading and writing on documents last year. The company calls it Digital Paper, and it’s kind of a Kindle on crack with a big high-resolution, high-contrast display and a pen for taking notes or scribbling doodles. Now a US distributor has announced it’ll begin selling Sony’s Digital Paper […]
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Next-gen YotaPhone has E Ink, color touchscreens
Russian phone maker YotaPhone introduced one of the most unusual Android phones late last year with the introduction of a dual-screen handset with a color display on one side and an E Ink screen on the other. Now YotaPhone is getting ready to launch a next-generation model. This time both displays feature touchscreens, letting you […]
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Yotaphone’s dual-screen smartphone is now available (in Europe and Russia)
Smartphone screens can be energy hogs, and they can be tough to see in direct sunlight. One solution would be to use an E Ink screen instead of a traditional LCD display — but while E Ink screens use far less power, they usually have slow screen refresh rates and don’t do a good job […]
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E Ink introduces Fina displays: 50 percent thinner, lighter
E Ink has introduced a new type of ePaper display which it says is half the weigh and half the thickness of a typical glass-based LCD. The company says that makes it new Fina screens well suited for devices that are larger than your typical tablet or eReader, since you can use an E Ink […]
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Yotaphone dual-screen, E Ink smartphone launches Dec 4th (in Russia)
Nothing works harder to kill your smartphone’s battery life than the display. That big, bright, full color screen sucks power like crazy, which is one reason why many modern smartphones can run for a day or two if you’re just listening to music, but die in a matter of hours when you’re surfing the web […]